From: Usman Akinyemi Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:39:39 GMT Subject: Re: Participating in Outreachy's December 2026 cohort Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Wed, Aug 26, 2026 at 4:29 PM Christian Couder wrote: > > Hi everyone, Hello > > Open Source communities have until September 11, 2026, at 4 pm UTC to > sign up to participate as mentoring organizations in Outreachy's > December 2026 cohort (see > https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2026-02-06/may-2026-call-for-mentoring-organizations/). > And (co)mentors have until that same time to submit project > descriptions. I was already waiting for this. > > Last year the Git community mentored a single intern. For a long time And to add to this, the intern later went on to co-mentor a GSOC intern this year. And also will be presenting his project in the coming Git conference. I was also a previous Outreachy intern myself. Because of this, I believe the program is very much valuable to the community. > GitHub or GitLab used to sponsor Outreachy interns working on Git, but > last year both declined to do it, so the intern was sponsored by the > Git project itself. > > Let us know if you want to help as a (co)mentor or an Org Admin, if > you know a company that would sponsor an intern, if you have ideas for > projects that we could propose, or if you have an opinion on Git > participating again this year, or on how we should select interns, > etc. I will like to be a co-mentor again this year. > > I am likely to mentor and help as an Org Admin again this year unless > we decide not to participate. > > Thanks. Thanks. >